Facebook’s new dating app allows users to choose from five different genders

The app, which is currently being tested internally by Facebook workers, allows users to specify if they want to match with people with mutual friends and choose from five genders: “trans woman”, “woman”, “trans man”, “man” and “non-binary people”.

Employees in the American headquarters in Mountain View, California who have opted in for the company’s internal testing programme were sent links to sign up last week.

Workers were asked to log into the new app and share “dummy” information to help spot glitches and refine its design before it is launched, a process Facebook refers to as “dogfooding”. …